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flatline

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• Thursday at 19:24

• #1

As title, 300tdi with 250k miles. Smokes on acceleration, white/grey and hangs in the air. Can see it during the day too.

Recently fixed a split lower intercooler pipe, drives much better than it did !

Timing belt done around 55k miles ago. Recently serviced.

Did a sniff test which appeared clear.

I've have a leak down tester which I'm planning on having a go with this weekend, I have a smoke tester and a compression tester.

After a bit help with what to do and in what order and tell me if I'm doing things correctly as I go

Cheers in advance

 

kevstar

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• Thursday at 21:02

• #2

Think your going to go through the list, enny meeny minny moe.............leak down first. lol

 

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flatline

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• Thursday at 22:45

• #3

Forgot to mention, I did a leak off test and got no fuel in the bottle, not even any in the hose.

Is that normal?

 

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flatline

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• Saturday at 18:49

• #4

Well that was a waste of a few hours

Fitting for the leak down tester leaks and the compression spring retainer thingy fell apart on the compression tester

 

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flatline

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• Yesterday at 17:20

• #5

New compression tester arrived today, can't seem to find an adapter for the leak down tester.

Cylinder 1 - 400
Cylinder 2 - 440
Cylinder 3 - 435
Cylinder 4 - 400

All looks good?

Also adjusted the valve clearance, some of them were extremely tight and somebody else has had a right go at them in the past as the bit where the flathead goes was mangled. I would like to check them again but I'm worried about damaging them even further.

 

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lynall

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• Yesterday at 19:14

• #6

Tight normally means idiot adjusted them last time, or valve seat recession.